You're putting together a team. Only the brightest, smartest, and perhaps thirstiest folks in your friend circle. Why? Cuz it's TRIVIA NIGHT!
Join us Thursdays at 7pm for General Trivia by Chicago Trivia Guys. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
Plus, food trucks every week starting at 5pm! Check our EVENTS PAGE for week-to-week food truck updates!
General Trivia at 7pm every Thursday at Riverlands Brewing Company in St. Charles with food trucks each week at 5pm!
Brews & Bluegrass. They sure do go well together. So we’ve mashed them up into another series for the summer:
Brews & Bluegrass Saturdays!
Join us each Saturday in June for live bluegrass paired up with a unique food truck.
THE LINEUP:
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5pm: Chuck’s Wood Fired Pizza
6pm: The Milkman's Kids - June Bluegrass Series Kickoff - Live Music in St. Charles
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5pm: Le Truff Noir Elevated Comfort Food
6pm: The Three Sons Bluegrass Band
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12pm: Pierogi Rig Food Truck (serving until 8pm or sellout)
6pm: Sean Shiel Music solo bluegrass & folk
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5pm: Tamales Plus Food Trolley
6pm: Rusken Bros. Band
As always, schedule is subject to change.
For over seven years (SEVEN YEARS?!), Riverlands Brewing Company in St. Charles, Illinois, has focused on two main goals:
- Brewing the highest quality beers and seltzers possible
- Not just being PART OF our hometown St. Charles community, but HELPING TO BUILD AND GROW IT.
On the beer side, our head brewer and co-founder, Eric Bramwell, has dedicated vast amounts of time to hone his brewing blade, refine our processes, and invest in our hardware to continually improve the quality of our product.
The end result: beers that have received honors at several of the world’s biggest brewing competitions. But more importantly, these beers have won over our guests, from regulars to first timers from all across the globe.
On the community side, we’ve tried to not just be part of the community passively, but to actively participate in ways that align with us. From protecting our natural resources with Fox River cleanup days, to hosting dog adoption events, to raising funds for local charities like Lazarus House and Big Hearts, to donating our space for families’ memorial events…we kind of wear our hearts on our sleeves.
Of course, none of this would be possible without our guests, and especially our community of Riverlands regulars that support us and the causes we hold dear. Thank you for your time and commitment to our little brewer that could, can, and will.
Read more on Tri-cities Central about our brewery’s seven-plus year history and how we’ve become St. Charles’ hometown brewery.
The shaded patio at Riverlands Brewing Company in St. Charles, Illinois.
Warm up those feet and dance your way into the weekend with our Winter Bluegrass Series every Friday this February! We’ve paired up a local bluegrass band and food truck each week to keep things interesting, so come on by, stomp your feet, and clap your hands!
Food service starts at 5pm with music at 6pm.
LINEUP:
2/6: The Lucky Pickers with Fernando’s Street Kitchen (updated)
2/13: Sean Shiel with Good Omen Gyoza Dumpling Night
2/20: The Milkman’s Kids with Chuck’s Wood Fired Pizza
2/27: The Rusken Bros Band with Uncle Cam’s Sandwiches
Riverlands Winter Bluegrass Music Series 2026 every Friday in February 6-9pm!
The Winter Blues have settled in for some, and if your seasonal gloominess is rearing its ugly head, we’ve got the cure: LIVE MUSIC. More specifically….THE BLUES!
Join us every Saturday in December for our Case of the December Blues Series, showcasing blue artists from the Chicagoland area, paired up with a different food truck each week.
Food starts around 5pm, with music starting at 6pm each week.
CASE OF THE DECEMBER BLUES SERIES LINEUP:
December 6:
Music: Tom Holland
Food: Chuck’s Wood-Fired Pizza
December 13:
Music: Matt Keen
Food: Biker Dude Burger
December 20:
Music: Brian Kleidon
Food: Indaba USA South African Cuisine
December 27:
Music: the Legendary Keith Scott!
Food: Uncle Cam’s Sandwiches
Poster for Riverlands Case of the December Blues Music Series!
This past weekend capped off a pretty great award season for Riverlands Brewing Co. After bringing home medals at the US Beer Open and the Great American Beer Festival, we even more recently took home a Bronze at the Festival of Wood & Barrel Aged Beer (FoBAB) for our latest barrel aged imperial stout release, Tranquil 2025.
Tranquil 2025, Bronze Medal Winner at the Festival of Wood & Barrel Aged Beers in Chicago, Illinois. On sale now at brewery in St. Charles!
Each of the medals we've won means something special, but this FoBAB medal might be my favorite of all. I remember first attending the festival back 10 years ago in 2015. The highlight that year for me was getting multiple pours of Goose Island Bourbon County Vanilla Rye, which I believe had just been released the year prior and was tasting amazing a year later. I want to say one of the big winners that year was Spiteful Brewing’s Malevolence Chocolate Caliente, which was one of my favorites of the day as well as being my intro to spicy stouts.
At this point 10 years ago, I was an avid homebrewer, but not in my wildest dreams would I have guessed I'd be there one day seeing my beer poured. Even then, 10 years ago, I knew FoBAB was special, and that some of the best breweries not only in Chicagoland, but also nationwide, bring their best of the best beers. These were the beers that brewers poured their love and creativity into, beers that sat in casks, often for years, waiting for their special moment to shine and be enjoyed. There were so many amazing beers I tried that day, and FoBAB is like that year after year.
Fast forward 10 years and my Saturday session of FoBAB ended much the same way as that first one a decade prior, having more beer at a brewery that I definitely didn't need given all the stout I tried at the fest, followed by a rough Sunday. The two key differences were that the brewery I was at this time was my own, and that we were celebrating a Bronze medal win, our first ever award at FoBAB. So many breweries I have so much respect and admiration for have won medals at this fest, both this year and in years prior, and many of them have influenced my own beer. Thanks to all my friends in the industry who have enabled us to reach a level where winning a medal in this festival is even possible.
And…thank you, River Rascals, for enthusiastically buying the beer we produce that enables us to keep this train rolling.
Assistant Brewer Brianna Levi and Head Brewer/Co-Founder Eric Bramwell at FoBAB 2025.
As Black Friday approaches, we look forward to the true start of Stout Season heralded in by the Bourbon County annual lineup. We've made Black Friday a tradition at Riverlands as well, releasing some of the stouts we are most proud of. In addition to still having Tranquil 2025 still in stock, we'll be releasing Lord of the Riverlands, a beer aged 2 years in 1792 Bourbon casks, in addition to American Medium Toasted Oak inserts by our friends at Creative Oak. The star of the show is that we conditioned this stout on two pounds of coconut, both toasted and raw, per gallon of liquid. This will by far be the most coconut forward stout we've done, a rich and decadent stout to fit the season.
We can't wait for you to try Lord of the Riverlands, available both on tap and in 500ml bottles to-go at noon on 11/28, as we continue our line of, now, award-winning barrel aged beers. Cheers, and we hope to see you at our brewery in St. Charles this holiday season.
Eric Bramwell
Head Brewer/Co-Owner
Riverlands Brewing Company
Join us every Friday evening in November for LIVE BLUEGRASS at your local, hometown brewery! Music runs every week from 6pm to 9pm, paired up with a different food truck to keep your palate just as stimulated as your ears!
THE LINEUP:
Nov 7:
Tony John & the Flatland Stringband
w/ the Waffadilla Food Truck!
Nov 14:
Stryder
w/ Dark Horse Grill
Nov 21:
Fox Crossing Stringband
w/ Chuck’s Wood Fired Pizza
Nov 28: BLACK FRIDAY
Big Sky Acoustic Duo
w/ Uncle Cam’s Sandwiches
November Friday Night Bluegrass Series featuring live bluegrass music and a different food truck each week!
Summer has made itself very well known around here recently, so we’re dropping three beers that will help you beat the heat!
1. Salty Fox: White Sangria!
We brewed up a German Gose-Style sour ale and fruited it with white grapes, orange, lemon, lime, and Mediterranean Sea Salt! Salt in your Sangria?! You bet, and you’ll thank us as you keep taking sip after satisfying sip! Plus, it’s just 4% ABV, so you’ll feel like filling a pitcher and sharing with some friends!
A can and pour of Salty Fox: White Sangria Gose-Style Sour Ale
2. Rio de Vaso Mexican-Style Dark Lager!
Brewed in collaboration with our friends at the Iron&Glass taprooms, this dark lager does a balancing act between full flavor and high drinkability. Malty and smooth, yet light bodied and easy to put down, this beer is fantastic for summer drinking. And at 5% ABV, it won’t slow you down early in the day.
3. River Life Pale Lager!
One of our most popular light drinking beers, River Life is your every day beer for doing chores, mowing lawns, lazy river days, and quenching that mid-day thirst. At just 4.8% ABV, it invites another can when you finish your last one.
A can and pour of River Life Pale Lager.
1860 Dean Street Unit A
St. Charles, IL 60174
MON - TUES: 4pm - 8pm
WEDS - SUN: 12pm - 10pm
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